Palembang | |
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Palembang Malay | |
باسو ڤليمباڠ Baso Pelémbang | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | South Sumatra |
Ethnicity | Palembang Malay |
Native speakers | 1.6 million (2000 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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Dialects | Palembang Lama Palembang Pasar Pesisir |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | plm retired and subsumed into mui [2] |
mui-plm | |
Glottolog | pale1264 |
Linguasphere | 33-AFA-dh |
![]() The distribution of Musi lects across southern Sumatra |
Palembang, also known as Palembang Malay (Baso Pelémbang), is a Malayic variety of the Musi dialect chain primarily spoken in the city of Palembang and nearby lowlands, and also as a lingua franca throughout South Sumatra. Since parts of the region used to be under direct Javanese rule for quite a long time, Palembang is significantly influenced by Javanese, down to its core vocabularies.[3]
While the name Palembang in the broad sense can also refer to the Musi dialect group as a whole,[4] it is most commonly used as an endonym for the speech used in the city and its immediate rural vicinity.[5][6]
In 2008, all the ISO 639-3 codes for Musi dialects, including [plm] for Palembang, were retired and merged into [mui] Musi. The old codes ([plm], [lmt], [pen], [rws]) are no longer in active use, but still have the meaning assigned to them when they were established in the Standard.[2]